Slide timing not acuarate

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in PPT XP, I've always had problems with slide timing. The timing never is exactly the same and changes every time i play a presentation. This is not limited to one workstation or configuration so its not a real hardware problem. What causes this variance? Can it be fixed? and does ppt 2003 fix it?
 
There was a change made with XP to address the inherent conflict
between the definitions of animation timings and slide transition
timings.

For one glaring conflict see http://groups.google.com/groups?
selm=MPG.18691d6ff451d42c98a8e4%40msnews.microsoft.com or
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MPG.17bb2c92fc38958298a73f%
40msnews.microsoft.com

In the case where an animation is 'on click' and the slide has a timed
transition setting, MS decided that 'on click' would be the earlier of
the 'on click' and whatever time was required to honor the slide
transition setting. See http://groups.google.com/groups?
selm=MPG.16d3555788a85a3d98a4ec%40msnews.microsoft.com for one
speculative algorithm

If I remember correctly, there are also changes in 2002 that affect
less obvious problems of what happens when the total duration for all
the animation timings on a slide exceed the slide transition time.

Also, PP has never been very accurate at honoring timing settings
and/or synchronizing parallel activities (sound with visual effects,
for example). I suspect this is by design. Consequently, a lot
depends on the resources available to the program at any given time --
what it can cache, resources other programs are consuming, etc.

Dunno if any of the 2002 changes was re-changed with 2003.

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Regards,

Tushar Mehta, MS MVP -- Excel
www.tushar-mehta.com
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